Dnepropetrovsk Metallurgical Works

(full name, G. I. Petrovskii Dnepropetrovsk Metallurgical Works), one of the oldest metallurgical enterprises of the USSR, producing pig iron, steel, and rolled iron. Until 1917 it was called the Aleksandrovsk South Russian Iron and Iron Rolling Works of the Briansk Joint-Stock Society. It is situated in the city of Dnepropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR. Construction of the plant started in May 1885, and the first blast furnace was put in operation in 1887.

The Dnepropetrovsk Metallurgical Works has glorious revolutionary traditions. Marxist circles arose at the plant in 1894, and the League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class was founded in Ekaterinoslav in 1897. I. V. Babushkin, G. I. Petrovskii, and other revolutionaries conducted revolutionary work at the plant, and the workers of the plant actively participated in the Revolution of 1905-07 and the October Revolution of 1917.

From the very earliest years of Soviet power, the steel workers and engineers of the Dnepropetrovsk Metallurgical Works participated in restoring existing and building new metallurgical and machine-building enterprises throughout the country and in training personnel for these enterprises. After the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War (1941) the equipment of the plant was evacuated to the east and installed at the Chusovoi,Gur’evsk, Orsk-Khalilovo, Zlatoust, and other plants. The Dnepropetrovsk Metallurgical Plant was restored in October 1943, after the liberation of Dnepropetrovsk from the fascist German occupation, and in 1951 it surpassed the output level of 1940. In the postwar years the technology of the metallurgical processes has been refined and output has been constantly increased. The plant was awarded the Order of Lenin in 1966.